vSphere 6.5

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    Update VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with PowerCLI

    There are a number of different ways to get your VMware ESXi 6.0 hosts upgraded to ESXi 6.5. We have covered some of them in previous articles. However, let’s take a quick look at utilizing PowerCLI for this task with…

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    Upgrading VMware ESXi to 6.5 update 1 with commandline

    We have looked at upgrading ESXi hosts to 6.5 update 1 using the vSphere Update Manager. Today however, we want to look at upgrading VMware ESXi to 6.5 update 1 with commandline. This can prove very useful especially if you…

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    Upgrade to VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 1 using VUM

    With the release of vSphere 6.5 Update 1, we now have for many what is the release of 6.5 they were looking for as a valid upgrade candidate to their ESXi environments. Previously, we looked at upgrading our VCSA 6.5…

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    Upgrading VMware vSphere VCSA Appliance to 6.5 Update 1

    With the recent exciting news of the release of VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1, there are many great reasons now to upgrade from vSphere 6.0. The first step that you will want to take after validating your hardware compatibility and…

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    VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released

    It is definitely a big news day today – VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released!  There is certainly a lot of good stuff contained in this release from vCenter Server, ESXi, vSAN, and VMware Tools as well as exciting new…

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    Install vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 Endpoint Agent

    Recently, VMware released vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 which has incorporated the beautiful HTML5 interface that we have partially functional with vCenter 6.5. Additonally starting in vRealize Operations Manager 6.1, we have the inclusion of Endpoint agents. With vRealize Operations Manager…

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    Change Paravirtual to NVMe virtual storage controller in vSphere 6.5

    With each new release of vSphere we have had storage performance improvements. The virtual storage controllers that are presented to a virtual machine can impact the performance of those VMs greatly. New to vSphere 6.5, we have the availability of…

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    VMware Disk Consolidation unable to access file since it is locked

    I wanted to write up a quick post concerning an error I received recently with consolidating disks on a few VMs.  Disk consolidation is needed when snapshot disks fail to compact after a Delete or Delete All operation or if…

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    VMware vSphere 6.5 Change vmkernel MTU size

    When dealing with VMkernel ports in vSphere 6.5 for most use cases for performance, we want to enable jumbo frames on the vmkernel ports to allow for less fragmentation of the packets for iSCSI, vMotion, and so forth.  Let’s take…

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    VMware VCSA 6.5 error code 42500 joining Active Directory domain

    Many VMware administrators by now are most likely looking at moving to vSphere 6.5.  In doing so, moving to VCSA 6.5 appliance is the first step towards that goal, besides proper planning of course.  Part of any vCenter configuration is…